Chat Pile

In a world increasingly shaped by disposable content, Chat Pile answers with something defiantly real and organic, a mentality that permeates 'Who Loves The Sun', their third full-length record. Since the band's formation just over six years ago, the Oklahoma City-based quartet Chat Pile has grown from a scrappy passion project into one of the defining heavy acts to emerge from the 2020s underground.They create a crushing, crass, and cathartic take on noise rock that captures a raw, undeniably human essence in an age marked by technological overreach and the cold state of society. Nothing about 'Who Loves The Sun' feels synthetic.Whereas their debut album, 'God's Country', depicted a particularly American flavor of dread, and the follow up, 'Cool World' showed a cruel planet defined by global systemic violence, 'Who Loves The Sun' peels the skin back on how collective indifference defines this new century. Spanning imagery of coastlines devouring cities, dead-end jobs, and submission to data-driven inauthenticity, the album dissects the apathy-bloated state of 21st-century existence as a slow-motion apocalypse.The album remains lyrically and sonically confrontational, but Chat Pile approached the songwriting with hooks in mind, drawing on melodic tones of pre-2000s indie rock, alt-rock, and new wave. 'Who Loves The Sun' is deeply human despite its allusions to a dying, divided world.